“It doesn’t even matter that she probably doesn’t understand how much she means to me. When the inevitable darkness finally descends, Angie will need her best friend. Secrets and cruelty lie just beneath the carefree surface of this world of wealth and privilege, and when they come out, Jess knows Angie won’t be able to handle the consequences. As Angie drags Jess further into Margot’s circle, Jess discovers more than her friend’s growing crush. Suddenly her powers of observation are more a curse than a gift. But when Angie begins to fall for Margot Adams, a girl from the nearby boarding school, Jess can see it coming a mile away. If nobody notices her, she’s free to watch everyone else. Being the girl no one quite notices is OK with Jess anyway. And that’s the most important thing, even if Angie can’t see how Jess truly feels. Jess Wong is Angie Redmond’s best friend. “A twisty, dark psychological thriller that will leave you guessing til the very end." -Teen Vogue “ riveting read…"-NPR The line between best friend and something more is a line always crossed in the dark.
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These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.īuck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. This selection is from The Call of the Wild.īuck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. When I saw this edition of The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories, I knew I had to get it so I could revisit Jack London’s writing. I think I read The Call of the Wild forever ago before I really started recording my books in an accurate and timely manner, but I have certainly read and taught several of Jack London’s short stories when I was an adjunct professor. Hello, Friday! First Lines Friday is a feature on my blog in which I post the first lines from a book I am interested in reading, either a new release or a backlist title! For the next several Fridays, I will be featuring titles I am going to hopefully read as part of my 12 Decades/12 Months/12 Books challenge (#12decades12books). For a week, the three live a carefree, convivial life, but their neighbours and relations are beginning to worry. On finding him, they ask him to come to look after them, as their father is working at sea and their mother has gone away. Two days later, the boys arrive at the docks near their home in Plaistow, East London, searching for an old family acquaintace, John Fox. The eldest, Robert, is thirteen his younger brother Nathaniel, known as Nattie, is twelve. On Monday 8 July 1895, in the midst of a London heatwave, two young boys set off to watch a cricket game at Lords. Summerscale’s investigations seek to understand more about the ‘why’ and to unpick the historical context of the crime and the way in which it was reported by the rapacious press. The ‘who’ is clearly and frankly admitted from the very beginning. Unlike Mr Whicher, however, this is not a whodunnit. Like her earlier books, it is a vivid recreation of 19th-century history based on dramatic cases heard in the Victorian courts and reported in the press and, like Mr Whicher, it focuses in on a horrific act of murder. This is the third book I’ve read by Kate Summerscale, after Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace and the excellent Suspicions of Mr Whicher, which I haven’t yet got round to posting about. The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer When she is called by a college roommate Jillian Spenser to go through her wealthy socialite mother's attic, she walks in on a murder. She moved to Montauk on Long Island and is building a career as a designer. Meg Barrett left her cushy job in New York City when she discovered her fiance-boss in a compromising position with his ex-wife. As Meg gets closer to the truth, the killer will do anything to paint her out of the picture… Cataloging valuable antiques and art loses its charm when Meg discovers that the Spenser family has been hiding dangerous secrets, which may have furnished a murderer with a motive. When she helps a friend inventory the Spensers’ estate for the insurance company, Meg finds herself right in the thick of things. Jillian’s mother, known as the Queen Mother of the Hamptons, has been murdered. But instead of seeing how the other half lives-she learns how the other half dies. In between scouring estate sales for her new interior design business, Cottages by the Sea, Meg visits the swanky East Hampton home of her old college roommate, Jillian Spenser. Leaving her glamorous job at a top home and garden magazine, she fled Manhattan for Montauk, only to find decorating can sometimes lead to detecting… After Meg Barrett found her fiancé still had designs on his ex-wife, she decided it was time to refurbish her life. Soon after Ann Eliza’s story begins, a second exquisite narrative unfolds–a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah. A rich account of a family’s polygamous history is revealed, including how a young woman became a plural wife. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff’s The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant novel of literary suspense. Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain. that she and Romeo could be married quickly. Jim develops strong feelings for Ántonia, something between a crush and a filial bond, and the reader views Ántonia’s life, including its attendant struggles and triumphs, through that lens. Mencken (Great Plains Book 1) - Kindle edition by Cather, Willa, Mencken. Then Pavel hurt himself working and is now laid up in bed. Shimerda that he had to mortgage all his stuff to pay a bill to Wick Cutter, a terrible moneylender who lives in town who took advantage of Peter on interest rates. Willa Cather's My ntonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. As fall comes to an end the Russians start having some trouble. The book’s narrator, Jim Burden, arrives in the fictional town of Black Hawk, Nebraska, on the same train as the Shimerdas, as he goes to live with his grandparents after his parents have died. My ntonia by Willa Cather: 9780140187649 : Books Willa Cather's My ntonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. This book title, My Antonia, ISBN: 9780143123156, by Willa Cather. My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is named Ántonia. My ntonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth. Download cover art Download CD case insert My Ántonia Originally from Kansas, she now finds herself in Texas! When not writing she is likely to be busy with one of many local charities or packing her bags to research her next novel. Best of all, she has made some wonderful friends along the way and has had a great time. Recently, the Washington Romance Writers named her a recipient of the Kathleen Gilles Seidel “Legend” award for her service to the chapter. Several have been nominated for Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA award and has been honored with RT Book Review’s “Love and Laughter” award among others. Now, she has over thirty-five published romance novels (and five anthologies) to her credit, many of them spending significant time on the New York Times and USA Today mass market best-seller lists. After a successful stint in Naval intelligence, including a tour with the Pentagon, Cathy proceeded to pursue writing. She later decided reporting was boring compared to making news and joined the navy. After graduating from college, Cathy started off as a news broadcaster. Cathy Maxwell’s enthusiasm for life graces the pages of her books and are the topic of the talks she gives to readers and writers groups about her chosen career. She also worked as a writing instructor at Cardinal Stritch University and a staff columnist for the Islam section of InFocus News. After completing her graduate work, she taught Islamic Studies and served as a youth coordinator. Degree in Psychology and her Masters in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I wrote because, just as we will fall in life, so will we rise. They became my deepest attempt to, not just pick myself up, but others along the way. The words found in this book became my voice and my letter to the world. And so I wrote, in hopes of helping myself and others survive and thrive inside their storms. The things I saw and learned and gained along my life path needed a voice. Like a lot of you, I’ve known loneliness. Many of us know the reality of struggle, and many people suffer in silence. Sometimes it’s hard not to let the weight of what we carry-or the memory of what we’ve lost-take over. Adab & Akhlaaq (Manners & Moral Conduct).As-Saḥābah (the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ).Ahlul Bait (the Family of the Prophet ﷺ). Lloyd-Jones tracks Dee's Faustian journey without ever falling out of step, and the story itself will ensnare readers as surely as any bargain."- Booklist (starred review) Praise for The Hearts We Sold:* "Beautifully written and elegantly characterized, this is a thoughtful, melancholy tale of love and redemption, magic and choice. This book will steal your heart and break it, and leave you begging for more. In The Hearts We Sold, demons can be outwitted, hearts can be reclaimed, monsters can be fought, and love isn't impossible. As something like love grows between them amid an otherworldly threat, Dee begins to wonder: Can she give James her heart when it's no longer hers to give? Reality is turned on its head, and Dee has only her fellow "heartless," the charming but secretive James Lancer, to keep her grounded. And what comes after Dee makes her deal is a nightmare far bigger, far more monstrous than anything she ever could have imagined. The demon who Dee approaches doesn't trade in the usual arms and legs, however. But this is a world where demons exist, and the demons are there to make deals: one human body part in exchange for one wish come true. Her home life sucks (to put it mildly), and she's about to get booted from her boarding school-the only place she's ever felt free-for lack of funds. An intoxicating blend of fantasy, horror, and romance-a Faustian fable perfect for fans of Holly Black, and Stranger Things.ĭee Moreno is out of options. And nowhere does she set out an alternative manifesto for running economies and societies. Nowhere does she explore what those circumstances may be and why economic freedom is so appealing to so many. Sometimes you cheer her on, but nowhere does she concede that markets can have good results as well as bad. 'Disaster capitalism' is an insightful way of looking at how the free marketeers have spread the gospel. She has written a tough attack on capitalism's capacity to insist that public policy be run wholly in its own interests and its conspiratorial capacity to capitalise on all forms of disaster and social distress to get its way. |